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NewsHSJ Live: 20.05.2013 Monitor publishes procurement guidance for CCGs
Regulator reveals draft guidance to help CCGs adhere to Section 75
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Oxfordshire CCG highlights finance uncertainty
FINANCE: An Oxfordshire CCG board paper warns that the baseline allocations exercise that has set the CCG’s income “could prove to be materially different than the actual value of activity transfers”.
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NewsKelsey: Prescriptions and observations IT are clinicians' top priorities
Trusts will be able to bid for a share of a £260m fund to finance e-prescribing and real time patient record keeping systems, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced today.
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Uncertainty grows over NHS Direct's future
NHS Direct may not continue to deliver the NHS 111 service beyond the end of this financial year, it has emerged.
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NewsExclusive: Mass board resignations at ex-NHS social enterprise
The chair and other non-executive directors of a social enterprise providing NHS community services have resigned en masse following a row over executive pay, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHunt plans £260m to help hospitals go digital
Hospitals are due to be funded to improve their “outdated” paper patient notes and prescriptions, under plans expected to be announced by the health secretary.
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Mental health trust admits it is unable to win FT status alone
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust has become the latest NHS provider to admit it will not be able to win foundation trust status independently.
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Leicestershire Partnership appoints acting chief exec
STRUCTURE: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has appointed a new acting chief executive.
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NewsLamb: 'No parity' in mental health services
The lack of equality in emergency hospital services for mental health patients needs to be addressed, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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Calderstones FT appoints chair
STRUCTURE: Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Rupert Nichols as its new chairman.
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Mersey Care unveils new £25m inpatient facility
STRUCTURE: Mersey Care NHS Trust has unveiled a new £25m mental health inpatient facility at a ground-breaking ceremony at the former Walton Hospital site in Liverpool.
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Pennine care involved in new hospice plan
STRUCTURE: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces with Bury Hospice to develop a children’s hospice.
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NewsHSJ Live 17.05.2013: Jeremy Hunt announces electronic patient record push
Jeremy Hunt is announcing a new push on - and investment in - electronic prescription and recording systems in hospitals, and the rest of today’s news.
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NewsSerco targets Cambridge community services contract
Serco is gearing up to bid for the Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust contract and expand its NHS portfolio, the company’s director of community services Sharon Colclough has indicated to HSJ.
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NewsRise in A&E attendances during 2012 claim
The number of patients who attended accident and emergency wards has increased by more than a million in just one year, it has been suggested.
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NewsCancer patients left hungry, survey shows
An “alarming” number of cancer patients are left to go hungry in hospitals and want to drop out of treatment because of the way they were dealt with by staff, a charity has warned.
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New board appointments at 2gether
WORKFORCE: 2gether Foundation Trust has appointed two new non-executive directors as its new chair also takes up post.
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Oldham announces A&E expansion
SERVICE DESIGN: Work has started to expand and improve the accident and emergency facilities at Royal Oldham Hospital, part of Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust.
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Stepping Hill introduces 'paperless' A&E
STRUCTURE: Stepping Hill Hospital, part of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, has become one of the first hospitals to introduce a paperless A&E department, it has said.
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Pennine Care takes on Trafford community services
STRUCTURE: Community health services in Trafford have transferred to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.